• Electric Picnic 2009 took place from September 4-6.
• Cois Fharraige took place from 11 – 13 September.
• On 14 September, Coldplay played the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Elbow and White Lies supported.
• On 23 September 2009, a report from the UK’s Music Week revealed that The Corrs album Talk on Corners was the twentieth best selling album in that country’s chart history and the top selling Irish album there. Albums by Snow Patrol and U2 also featured in the top fifty.
• 24 September—Arthur’s Day: The 250th anniversary of the signing of a lease by Arthur Guinness for a brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin. Events organised by Diageo get underway in Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, New York and Yaoundé. International performers who came to Dublin for the occasion included Tom Jones, Ronnie Wood, The Kooks, Paolo Nutini and The Enemy. The British music magazine NME referred to it as a “piss-up in a brewery”.
• On 24 September, U2 set a new all-time attendance record of 84,472 at their second concert at New York’s Giants Stadium during the American leg of their U2 360° Tour. They beat a previous record set by Pope John Paul II in 1995, announcing their achievement from the stage. They also announced their first ever appearances in Russia and Turkey for 2010. British fans, upon noticing a lack of any further dates in their country, began to speculate about the possibility of U2 “hitting the festival circuit” as the music weekly NME termed it.

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